A contractor for the Town of Culpeper will begin repaving some secondary roads Monday, May 13, possibly causing traffic delays and on-street parking issues.

A new state law to stiffen penalties for Virginians caught texting while driving will save countless lives, the head of a nonprofit driving safety organization says.

For a moment there was true equality for all the runners assembled at the starting line.

The crowd was bigger, and far more invested in the outcome than usual, but Grinding Speed didn't mind the cheers and jeers coming from the some 60,000 fans that pressed into Great Meadow Saturday.

It was a bit of Americana downtown last Saturday as the Culpeper Ruritan Club hosted Culpeper Day for the 37th year.

Events happening in and around Culpeper

Voters will have to make some choices this November as incumbent supervisors Larry Aylor, Brad Rosenberger and Bill Chase look to see challengers.

This summer, 18-year-old Culpeper Law Explorer Mike Mawdsley will take the next step toward fulfilling his lifelong dream – becoming a Culpeper police officer. He has been selected to attend a one-week National Law Enforcement Exploring Leadership Academy in Washington, D.C., sponsored by DEA in late June.

Libations on the Lawn starts May 3 at 5:30 p.m. on the back lawn of the Museum of Culpeper History.

This past winter proved to be a trying time for the organizers of Culpeper Day 2013. A previously routine request for street closures was debated – and part of the request denied – by Culpeper town councilmen concerned about the annual event's effect on Davis Street businesses.

Residential Burglary | Felony Animal Cruelty (Editor's note - this report contains descriptions of animal cruelty.)

A Culpeper man will spend three years in the state penitentiary for selling drugs to a police informant.

*Updated* At least 24 runners from the greater Prince William County area registered to compete at the Boston Marathon, which was marred on April 15 by two explosions that killed at least three people and wounded more than 100 others, according to various news accounts.

Due to the realignment of intersection of Hospital Drive and Laurel Street caused by ongoing expansion at Culpeper Regional Hospital and also relocation of the helipad, Culpeper officials plan to lower the speed limit on Laurel Street to 25 mph early next month.

A federal grand jury in Charlottesville, Va. indicted a Library of Congress employee on charges of harassing a Marshall-area woman with false Craigslist ads soliciting sex.

Harold Lee Daniels, 59, of Rapidan, has been identified as the person fatally wounded Thursday evening during a confrontation with Culpeper County Sheriff's deputies. Daniels allgedly pointed a handgun at the deputies. The deputies subsequently shot the male subject. Daniels died at the scene.

Brandishing a Weapon on School Property – On April 11th at 3:56PM, police responded to Godwin Middle School located at 14800 Darbydale Ave in Woodbridge (22193) for a subject with a gun. Multiple police units responded quickly to the school and secured a perimeter. Once on scene, officers learned that the suspect was a student of the school and was detained in the principal’s office.

On Thursday evening a Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Deputy shot and killed a suspect at a residence on Oak Forest Drive in Rapidan, Virginia.

On April 8, Circuit Court Judge Susan L. Whitlock affirmed the sentence recommended by a Culpeper jury on January 16 and sentenced Antonio Sedro Tansimore, 40, of Culpeper to 27 months in prison for breaking and entering entered a residence located on Auburn Road in Culpeper.

A Fauquier County sheriff's deputy was injured Monday night after a car chase across the Culpeper county line led to a collision in an Amissville neighborhood.